Peter Stuyvesant Foundation

The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation owns the oldest and most celebrated corporate art collection in the Netherlands.

The BATCO offices in Amsterdam Buitenveldert, where part of the collection is on view, even has official museum status. For years already, in the Zevenaar plant monumental works by international artists are suspended over the cigarette making machines.

In 1991 and 1992 Erik Hermida, executive advisor to the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, is responsible for organizing exhibitions of works on loan from the collections in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Fundació Juan Miró in Barcelona, in La Lonja in Zaragoza and Valencia in Spain.

Liesbeth Hemelrijk is responsible for the artists’ biographies and for the catalogue ‘Art works - International modern art in the industrial working environment, an experiment over more than thirty years’.

Testimonial Mr J.P. (Bunky) de Vos Former Chairman Peter Stuyvesant Foundation

When we send a hundred works from our collection on a tour along several Spanish cities in 1992/93, Erik Hermida was appointed project leader. Through our many contacts, he was well acquainted with the collection and its purpose. He knew how to enthuse all involved in his inimitable way and he speaks Spanish fluently. The biographies and bibliographies on the artists in the accompanying bilingual catalogue ‘Art works’, were taken care of in a very professional way by Liesbeth Hemelrijk. Bravo and on to the next celebration!

Paintings above cigarette production machines in the BATCO factory
(former Turmac Tobacco Company) in Zevenaar.